Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

Much has been said by others of the importance of Christian testimony as a means of convincing
and saving men. Dr. Daniel Steele says "the value of Christian testimony in persuading men to be
saved has never been rated at its full worth. When St. Paul's life was at stake, whether before a
Jewish mob or a pagan king, he always told his experience." He says again:
"A philosopher has said, 'The experience of one rational being is of interest to all who become
cognizant of it.' This is because we are so constituted as to be similarly affected by like causes. Let
half a dozen persons far gone with pulmonary consumption publish to the world their complete cure
by the same remedy, and the glad news would flash across the continents and beneath the oceans,
irradiating with hope myriads of sick chambers. Hence the value of testimony. Justice, in her walk
through the earth, leans upon this staff. The entire science of medicine and art of healing have been
founded upon it. The pharmacopoeia has been filled through the attestation of cures. Who can better
authenticate the healing than the healed patient? Who better than the cleansed soul can testify his
spiritual transfiguration, and the power by which it was accomplished? Experience is one of the chief
elements of evangelical power."
Once more says Dr. Steele:
"Testimony is the most cogent argument. A herald is useful to make proclamation of the law, and
of the will of the court, but make way! here comes one more important to the ends of justice -- an
unimpeachable witness. All jurists tell us that one word of authentic evidence outweighs ten
thousand words of professional pleading. The witness must speak, the plea maybe dispensed with.
The testimony can go to the jury without the argument, but it will be folly to send the argument
without the testimony. We fear the modern Christian Church is making this sad blunder, when,
respecting the question of full salvation in this life, she listens more attentively to the speculations
of theorizers then to the declaration of witnesses attesting that Jesus is a complete Saviour ... The
great want of the age is a witnessing Church and ministry."
The late Bishop Gilbert Haven, when editor of Zion's Herald, in his editorial preface to the
published experience of a distinguished scholar, divine, and author of his Church, says:
"Much is said about the higher life; less is felt of its great fullness. An experience is worth a
thousand theories."
He then adds:
"That there is a Pauline experience of the heights and depths of grace divine, that the Holy Ghost
can now fall on believers in fullness of power, it is impossible to doubt in the face of multitudinous
testimony from all ages and branches of the Church."
The late Dr. A. J. Gordon says:
"Having drawn our scheme of the doctrine of the Spirit from the Scriptures, we have sought to
fill up the outline from the records of religious biography. For Christian experience, if it be true and